About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

April 29......

April 29 is the 119th (120th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Disabilities "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain – until it is secured for of us and incorporated into our common life." — Jane Addams

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Iraq War "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." — George W. Bush

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1885 - Women admitted to exams at Oxford University for the first time.

● 1886 - 1st public Dutch electricity opens

● 1894 - Jacob Coxey's protest Industrial Army of the Poor reaches Washington D.C. He led a group of 500 unemployed people from the Midwest, and was arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds.

● 1895 - American warships sent to Nicaragua, to protect U.S. interests.

● 1899 - Their demand that only union men be employed refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) dynamited the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho, destroying it completely. Pres. McKinley responded by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas with orders to round up thousands of miners and confine them in specially built "bullpens." 1899-1901 saw U.S. Army troops occupying the Coeur d'Alene mining region in northern Idaho.

● 1899 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C.

● 1901 - Hirohito, ruler of Japan during World War II and Japan's longest-reigning monarch, was born.

● 1933 - The Navigators trace their origin to this date, when founder Dawson Trotman began the work in San Pedro, CA. In 1943, this evangelical mission was formally incorporated, and is headquartered today in Colorado Springs, CO.

● 1945 - U.S. troops liberated the oldest of the Nazi concentration camps -- Dachau -- in Bavaria, West Germany. It is estimated that nearly 32,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished at Dachau during its 12-year existence as a Nazi detention camp.

● 1945 - Venice & Mestre are captured by the Allies

● 1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.

● 1951 - A Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government was presented with a treaty draft regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

● 1952 - Death of Samuel M. Zwemer, 85, American Dutch Reformed missionary. Serving in Egypt between 1890-1905, Zwemer helped found the Arabian Mission in 1888 and authored over 50 volumes during his life -- many in Arabic.

● 1952 - United States, Australia, and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty for "collective security" and "regional defense." Treaty eventually collapses in 1980's over U.S. refusal to honor nuclear-free ports.

● 1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

● 1970 - U.S. invades and bombs Cambodia, widening the Vietnam War.

● 1971 - Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration

● 1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.

● 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.

● 1992 - An all-white jury acquits four Los Angeles policemen of charges resulting from the beating of Rodney King. Riots and civil disturbances break out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and numerous other U.S. cities. In L.A., 53 die, hundreds are injured over the following days.

● 1992 - Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.

● 1993 - Queen to open Palace doors; Buckingham Palace will open to the public for the first time in a bid to raise funds to repair Windsor Castle.

● 1994 - Pres. Clinton meets with 500 Native American leaders.

● 1994 - Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300

● 1994 - Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris which granted Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

● 1996 - Three men are arrested for protesting a nuclear power plant under construction in southern South Korea, in violation of the country's Law Of Atomic Energy, which strictly limits the scope of permitted action in opposition to state nuclear policy.

● 1996 - Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland. What appeared to be Colby's body was later recovered.

● 1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Ava● St. Agapius● St. Catherine of Siena● Martyrs of Corfu● St. Daniel● St. Dichu● St. Endellion● St. Fiachan● St. Hugh the Great● St. Paulinus of Brescia● St. Peter of Verona● St. Robert Blessed Robrecht Gruuthuuse (d. 1157)● St. Robert of Molesmes● St. Senan● St. Torpes● St. Tychicus● St. Wilfrid the Younger● Bl. Robert Bruges

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